Trapped and fighting for their very lives in a Virtual Reality MMORPG, Aincrad Online, the story explores the mishaps and adventures of the greatest one handed swordsman of the VR world, Kirito. Together with his friends, the solo swordsman strives to finish the game, which in turn will release all the minds trapped into Aincrad.

Best anime I’ve seen in awhile. Reminds me of .Hack series, which I thought was awesome.

Xeniath

The Voice of Kirito is the same voice actor for Kite in .Hack

Riotblade

No other anime has made me want to spoil myself for a long while.

WretchedEmbryo

love this anime so much that i read the manga n now im reading the novels

Just a Fan

Where the heck can I find the manga and novels?!

http://Dhampir.Darkstarlings.com/ Dhampir

These episodes can’t come out fast enough lol…need more!

yuichi hiruma

kailan po labas ng epi 14

http://Dhampir.Darkstarlings.com/ Dhampir

omg@episode14…and there are still 11 more to come! This is so great! This one had tears-o-plenty lol

Dragneil

best anime ever I think its much better than .Hack

neurodoc

need more episodes!!!!!!!!!!

Tofuman

i rike dis

Romeo Makoto

the least hey could have done was gave us a preview of the next episode.

Michael Tjoe

~@.@~

Glade

sword art online episode 20 and 21 are the same,where is episode 21

Riotblade

Thanks for noticing. Repaired.

Dhampir

I don’t want this anime series to end. So epic!

dontwish

init

So Disappointed

I’m gonna go on a on the contradictory side here and say the anime wasn’t that great. I was really disappointed by the 7th or 8th episode. Who the heck decided to start an anime with side stories. I’m sure that the LN is much better, but I’m saying how bad the anime is not the LN. I feel like the anime was too rushed and the creator himself said that the anime was supported by people that were “lacking brains”. Overall, I think this is the worst adaption in 2012, in my opinion.

dontwish

best anime<33

vyky

i couldn stop until the and i am so slepy

Beater

soo good anime..

Bashklita

Sword Art Online is a prime example of an anime that is doing something good in the beginning but failing to maintain it.

I have not read the manga, but the fairy arc was the lamest and one of the most boring things i have seen in an anime yet, next time wait until you have seen ALL the episodes before you rate a 20~ episodes anime like this guys.

Walker41032

Sorry, since this is such a late reply, but you have guts to say it sucks even though its’ s on the top anime list. (-.-)~

S0B1Gbot

Uh, dont u think its a bit too late? But that is true…about yur “point”.

Blacksoth

**SPOILERS**

Not really. The “top anime” lists are usually a bunch of shonen voted on by mostly kids who are not known for either the breadth of their knowledge nor are they particularly known for their discerning taste. The lists tend to be whatever is hot at the time, so that distinction is meaningless.

I’m actually harsher with my criticism than Bashklita. I thought from the beginning there were a lot of issues that didn’t add up and that the writers had a hard time distinguishing the line between reality and fiction.
There are so many inconsistencies I don’t know where to begin.

Example 1 – How exactly are they staying alive when it takes them months to advance through the levels? From the first episode we’re told that Kirito, even with advanced knowledge of the game as a beta tester, expects to take more than a few weeks to get to where he was (lvl 8?). A person will die without food for a week, 3 days without water. The first person Kirito meets is Klein who says he lives alone. Even if people were found and intravenously fed (such as Kirito being found by a family member).. Klein would have died long ago but he keeps showing up as the show continues.

Example 2 – In the first episode we’re told that characters don’t really feel pain (or anything). And yet there are many times where people “pretend?” to get hurt. Even when Kirito feels up Asuna.. how is it that either person felt that?

This is an average anime. The art is great but the storyline is really terrible.

joh2141

I agree with some points but my response has to do with your examples. Since there were only (I think) 10,000 copies released for the people who were trapped in SAO, it was easier to identify them and find them. In Korea, you NEED KSSN or some form of ID verification to play MMO. I suspect Japan will be similar at the very least. That’s how perhaps people like Klein might have been saved and moved to the hospital (or a friend must have realized it).

For the 2nd episode, after the players were unable to log on and SAO became a “death game,” I think there was somewhere in the episode that mentioned that they could physically FEEL things now including pain and the taste of food. Not 100% sure but it would make sense; if you can now die in SAO, it wouldn’t be crazy if they could feel everything.

Also, to further add onto Example 2, since the game uses your brain waves, you still see everything in 1st person meaning even if they could not feel anything, it would feel creepy or weird.

Yuufa

was dothack all over again, no originality

jayjj

no sound

Kage Karazuki

If they would have taken all the story and plot from both halves and just kept it in one MMO world it would have felt less like a hiccup in the middle. It really started great. I was even okay with the little sister/cousin crush thing but the two antagonists could have been better twisted into one bad guy and the original father of the game and stayed in one MMO world. It just felt sloppy but by that point I wanted to see how it ended. I think it all kind of tied in okay but they could have done something better for Sugu she needs a new love or something. It was good compared to others of similar length but not Great!

Leonidas

yeah i love this anime… i wanna go in… if i CAN go in

Wazzup Bitch

dafuq

yolo

is that gun gale online will be in anime ?

Russ

Great anime and all, but I must say, I was disappointed. I really wanted a deeper plot, not side stories.
I can deal with the romantic sub-plot, though. Yui and Asuna are important. I really would’ve liked it if there weren’t as many side stories for season 1. I liked the character development in season 2.

PIgboss

man! this is epic! more episode please!!

Euki

i wish there would be more episodes!!! love this anime!:D

sina

i can’t wait for the next season.

Fuzsion

The feels man, the feels ;-;

Perfect1

WAS AN UNREAL START THE FIRST HALF WAS AMAZING THEN IT STARTED TO BLURR BETWEEN THE LINES A BIT I LOVED IT THO I LIKE THE HOLE STORY IDEA EVEN IF IT WAS BORROWED FANTASTIC
P.S. I watched all 25 eps in a row I have no life very tired good night

too old

it was a great anime and ive been watching animes for a long long time im probly the oldest one on this message board and i can say it was great cant wait to see what else the the ppl that made this can come out with.